Verwahrung
Bitpanda Asset Management GmbH
Bitpanda Asset Management GmbH is licensed in Germany under the EU crypto-asset regulation MiCA, supervised by BaFin, since 24 January 2025.
The licence covers 4 of the ten MiCA services, including custody and administration of crypto-assets for clients.
Registered facts
- Licensed legal entity
- Bitpanda Asset Management GmbH
- Home member state
- Germany (DE)
- Supervisor
- Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)from the ESMA register
- Authorised since
- 24 January 2025
- Role
- Verwahrung
What this licence permits
MiCA splits crypto services into ten types. A licence covers only the ones listed here; anything else the firm may not offer to EU clients.
- aCustodycovered
- bTrading platformnot covered
- cExchange for fundscovered
- dExchange for cryptocovered
- eOrder executionnot covered
- fPlacementnot covered
- gOrder receptionnot covered
- hAdvicenot covered
- iPortfolio managementnot covered
- jTransfer servicescovered
Permissions under German law
The German supervisor records every permission separately, with the date it was granted. That makes the move from the old crypto custody permission to the MiCA licence visible.
- In forceVerwahrung und Verwaltung von Kryptowerten für Kunden (Art. 59 Abs. 1a i.V.m. Art. 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 16 a MiCA-R)since 24 January 2025
- In forceTausch von Kryptowerten gegen einen Geldbetrag (Art. 59 Abs. 1a i.V.m. Art. 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 16 c MiCA-R)since 24 January 2025
- In forceTausch von Kryptowerten gegen andere Kryptowerte (Art. 59 Abs. 1a i.V.m. Art. 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 16 d MiCA-R)since 24 January 2025
- In forceErbringung von Transferdienstleistungen für Kryptowerte für Kunden (Art. 59 Abs. 1a i.V.m. Art. 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 16 j MiCA-R)since 24 January 2025
- EndedKryptoverwahrgeschäft (§ 1 Abs. 1a Satz 2 Nr. 6 KWG a.F.)Inkrafttreten Artikel 3 des FinmadiG18 November 2022 until 29 December 2024
- Endedqualifiziertes Kryptoverwahrgeschäft (§ 1 Abs. 1a Satz 2 Nr. 6 KWG)Rückgabe / Aufgabe30 December 2024 until 31 December 2025
Source: company database of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), retrieved 3 September 2026 via its own export function.
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